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Burned beams from a great temple
Top Image: Archaeologists excavate the destruction layer at the Givati Parking Lot site in Jerusalem's City of David, where exceptionally preserved charred wooden beams from the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC were uncovered. Source: Reut Vilf /City of David

Burned beams from a great temple

Jerusalem. 586 BC. Greece and Rome. Known. Free

These beams were not shown to be the roof of the Temple itself.

Known. They are charred wooden beams from a building of the First Temple period.

The beams were found at the Givati Parking Lot dig, in the City of David, in Jerusalem. They were burned in 586 BC, when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple, more than 2,600 years ago. The page says huge beams of sycamore wood seem to have roofed an inner courtyard. Melted plaster from a wall spread over the wood and sealed it. Well-preserved wood from a coniferous tree, with many growth rings, was also found in the same destruction layer. People later sealed off that part of the building and kept living in rooms that were not ruined.

The page does not say what is still argued.

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